Partners' ratings of combat veterans' PTSD symptomatology

The current study examined the concordance of combat veterans' scores on the Mississippi Scale for Combat‐Related PTSD, with scores on a parallel version of that instrument completed by partners to assess veterans' symptoms. Further, the study examined the impact of quality of the marital...

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Published in:Journal of traumatic stress 1999-04, Vol.12 (2), p.327-334
Main Authors: Taft, Casey T., King, Lynda A., King, Daniel W., Leskin, Gregory A., Riggs, David S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Anxiety disorders. Neuroses
Biological and medical sciences
Combat Disorders - psychology
couples
Female
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Marriage - psychology
Medical sciences
Mississippi Scale
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Psychological Tests
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
PTSD
score concordance
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - diagnosis
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology
Veterans - psychology
Vietnam
Vietnam veterans
Warfare
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Summary:The current study examined the concordance of combat veterans' scores on the Mississippi Scale for Combat‐Related PTSD, with scores on a parallel version of that instrument completed by partners to assess veterans' symptoms. Further, the study examined the impact of quality of the marital relationship on score concordance. Bivariate and multiple regression were used with a sample of 466 veteran‐partner dyads obtained from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study. There was moderate agreement in symptom reporting between veterans and their partners and little evidence to suggest that the quality of the relationship impacted upon the association between partner and veteran scores.
ISSN:0894-9867
1573-6598
DOI:10.1023/A:1024780610575